With flat panel TV sales slumping in Japan, Europe and the U.S., they are holding steady in most emerging markets.
Munster estimates that the flat panel TV market will be 220 million units in 2012, and that 48% of those, or about 106 million, will be Internet connected.
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McShane notes that flat panel TV prices fell 21.1% on a year-over-year basis in July, worse than the 14.8% drop in June and a 13.6% decline in May.
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In the lobby, a flat panel TV was streaming video clips of Jack Ma speaking at various public events where his admirers, most of them in their twenties, were cheering him like a rock star.
And even while India flat panel TV sales were not as big as people hoped, Sony and Panasonic are apparently staking a claim in India, sticking their flag in the turf and hoping to take away market share from Samsung, The Economic Times reported on Tuesday.
Some movies look pretty darned good and sound good, too on the flat-panel TV in my living room.
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He says the sector has been hurt buy weak flat-panel TV demand, especially in China.
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Compared to conventional flat-panel TV sets, 3D sets are much more expensive and yield higher profit margins.
He rejects the idea that Americans are living beyond their means, suckered by teaser mortgages and in hock to makers of 60-inch flat-panel TV screens.
The stunning Gateway One ZX Series resembles a sleek, glossy flat-panel TV with its ultra modern luxurious industrial design, and enhances the look of any room in the home.
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Employees involved in Hitachi Consumer Electronics flat-panel TV business, including Hitachi CM, we plan to take advantage of new business and in and out of the Hitachi Group Hitachi Consumer Electronics.
Hitachi CM, with flat-screen TV to make the results developed by Hitachi Consumer Electronics, for final assembly process to ensure that the consignment to the outside, we will build a stable business base for flat-panel TV business.
Hitachi, in flat-panel TV business, reduce fixed costs through the second half of fiscal 2009 from fiscal 2007, the reduction of overseas operations, including measures to improve profitability through the use of procurement, building a business model that specializes in technology management with low-risk differentiated has been working on.
When each day is through, clove the door on your Shangri-La Hotel room and enjoy five-star features like a pillow menu, a bedside control panel and a flat-screen TV.
Sharp has temporarily suspended operations at its 8G and 10G flat panel production lines in respond to slowing LCD TV sales following the March 11 earthquake in Japan, according to DigiTimes.
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Anyway, ExtremeTech doesn't think that the image quality on Gateway's LCD TV is as good as it could be (its contrast is good, while its dark value could be a bit better), but anyone buying this TV is probably more focused on getting a flat-panel HDTV on the cheap than getting the best picture quality possible.
I've been eying projectors instead of the flat-panel HDTVs since it seems you can get so much more projector than TV for the same amount of cash.
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Additionally, consumers will enjoy the Curved OLED TV for its immersive panorama effect, which is currently not possible with conventional flat-panel TVs.
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